A casual history of the badass princess pt 1

Twilight waited impatiently in the golden oak library for her friends to arrive. Celestia had sent her the books with details on Princess Luna and Twilight wanted her friends around when she read them. She had been pacing for two minutes before the door opened and her friends walked in. They did not say anything, they just stood there, waiting for Twilight to make the first move.

“Hello everypony.” Twilight said. “Princess Celestia has given me a few books detailing her sister, whom we are currently looking for. One she said was written casually but had the most accurate information. That is the one I plan to read from.”

“Well then what are we waiting for?” Rainbow said, “I want to get to finding Luna and giving her a peice of my mind.”

“While a few would agree with you, that wouldn’t be the best idea.” Twilight said. “As it turns out Princess Luna has had a violent life and has slaughtered countless enemies with far more skill in combat then you do Rainbow. Who’s to say she would spare you?”

Rainbow moved to argue but then thinks it over.

“Now, without further ado, I will begin.”

Introduction and the early years

Princess Luna, bringer of the moon, voice of the heavens and dark one. All of these she is know by and much more. Princess Luna gives the word badass a run for its money. She has single hoofedly toppled the once mighty griffin empire and brought the once great crystal empire to its knees without ever really wanting to. She lead all nine crusades against the changling hordes and conquered the great kings of the Minotaurs realm. She quite literally defeated the world.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Both of our beloved princesses came from rather humble beginnings. Both were earth ponies born on a wheat farm in the northern griffin empire. The griffins at this time had control of the entire equestrian continent and their empire was cruel to its conquered races. The griffins would come once every five years and take young children from their homes to work as slaves in their cities. Luna was one such pony.

Taken from her family at the age of four and assigned to work in the coldest reaches of the empire as a farm pony. In these communities the slaves were kept in the same building with barracks right next to it. The entire plantation was guarded by griffins that would severely punish anyone who fell behind. During this time Luna was witness and often subject to the most vile and hideous of tortures the griffins had developed. For ten years she lived like that, working and suffering for the griffins benefit and pleasure.

When she was fourteen one of the guards were going to kill a mare she had befriended who’s name is lost to time and known only to Luna. It was harvesting season and so Luna took the scythe she held and struck the guard with the blade, and decapitated him. Soon she was fighting all of the guards and the rest of those imprisoned with her began fighting with their scythes and sickles while defeating the bewildered griffins.

Luna had emmediatly taken charge and had those who were assigned to repair and replacement for tools modify the scythes so that the blades protruded from the top like a spear head. With these new “war scythes” Luna had managed to make an army of the slaves there. Those who were too young to fight helped with minor construction and farming. They built a tower on one corner of the barracks and took some bows from the slain griffins. Once all of the harvest was done they stored the food and began constructing a small fort. It consisted of a palisade that surrounded the two buildings with towers on every corner.

A replacement guard arrived a few days later and were not aware of the restisting slaves so they were ambushed upon entry of the fort. One managed to escape and bring the news to the emperor of the griffins, who sent a small detachment to kill the group Luna was now leading. Luna had developed a way of fighting as a unit instead of fighting as single warriors. She drilled herself and her subjects on many ways to fight in different situations. One of the most common things they used was the spearwall formation, it consisted of tightly packed ponies holding out their spear or scythe to create a wall of blades.

Using this training the group defeated the detachment with little difficulty then moved to take the nearby work camp and liberated it. Luna gave them the same training and her army grew. Luna and her army continued like this for the next two years, attacking and liberating works camps and training the ones old enough to fight. Soon Luna’s garrison turned into a legion, with weapons and armor that were uniform and well made.

The griffins never believed they would face such a threat. They sent a legion of equal strength to kill Luna and her rebellion. Luna had positioned one third of her troops in a narrow pass and the rest traveled the long way around to the other side and outflanked the griffins. The griffins had no idea what was happening and were soon crushed. Thirty two of them surrendered.

The griffins sent a messenger saying that they could keep the lands they had conquered, if they ceased their advance into the griffin empire. As a response Luna cut off the messengers wings and her troops executed half of the prisoners they had. Luna did not say a word, but the message was clear, dont ask for mercy when you have shown none.

At this point the legionaries began to call Luna queen despite her protests. And several defectors from the work camps that were yet to be liberated in the south arrived and were given training. This continued for six years, when Luna turned twenty two, and her legion had multiplied into nine legions. Each with respective generals that were unquestionably loyal to her.